ocean + ripple solver setup

[nicoladanese 15]

hey!

I'm doing a water surface using the ocean tool under H16.5 and it's all good so far, now I want to intriduce a little wake in the deformed surface. I'm not using the displacement pipeline so I have the actual geo that I can bake and then apply the wake. is the ripple solver the right way to go? I'm struggling to combine the two effect and to apply the ripple solver on a moving object...any idea?

[Atom 1,084]

You might want to take a look at some of the options on Tokeru.

http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=HoudiniExperiments#Bow_vectors

[nicoladanese 15]

interesting enough I was looking into the same page, on another topic, I found a way to add deformations on a plane

http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=Houdini#Point_and_attribute_transfer_with_lag_via_solver_sop

and then feed it to the ripple solver thanks to an entagma tutorial, I'm hoping I can now combine the ocean and the ripple together, I guess the best would be to feed the grid with the ripples into the ocean deformer, rather than doing vice-versa, or maybe I can cached them separately and add the difference later on a per-point analysis 

[nicoladanese 15]

just to update who's interested in the topic, after a few test I think the best is to simulate the wake with the ripple solver, and then apply the ocean displacement to that mesh, main reason is the fact that the ripple solver is simulated over time, so I think is better to get that sorted, and after apply the ocean displacement, which is easier to control. I'm happy to share an example scene if someone needs it

[tirita 0]

Hi Nicoladanese if you want to share this file i really like this because i'm interesting about it

 

Thank you for your time

[nicoladanese 15]

hey! sorry for the late reply just came back from holiday, do you still need it? I don't have access to my houdini right now but I can put something together in the next few days if you still need it